Connecticut western news., 1887-06-15
4 LETTER FROM COLORADO.

We are permitted to publish the fol- lowing portion of letter dated Sterling, Colorado, May 26, and written by Lester H. Adams, to his parents in Canaan.
 May 23d, as we were coming from breakfast, Ingalls,, our boss, said to me, " he had orders to send one of his ax- men into Lincoln, and would find pass down at the office" I had been expecting it, but did not think it would come so soon. I left St Paul at 9:37 8. m., arrived in Lincoln at 3 p. m., and reporting at the office of the Burlington < Missouri was told was to start for Colorado the next day with MT Lamb and Mir Mark. I spent the night at cousin Johns.
 Lincoln looks fine just now. It i'm proves the country so much wherever there are any trees, and Lincoln has many of them. It IS booming just now in real estate land that was bought for 41, 100 year ago can be sold for 5000 any day.
 The next day at 12 m. we started for Ft Morgan, which is the nearest point to Sterling on the B. $ M. line. We reached there at 4:40 a. m. The coun- try as far as McCook is very level and fertile but at Ft. Morgan it looks differ ently here, in order to raise anything they have to irrigate the land, which they do to great extent. They take the water from the Platte river in a large canal to the town and there dig ditches and take it wherever they want it. The water IS brought by company, and the farmers pay about S10O year for 90 acres. The country is level, or looks SO at least, but there Is gradual dope from the mountains An old far mer said, "the water would follow a plow furrow for 25 miles," Most of the land is divided into sections about four rods wide and long as they want it. On both sides of every street there is a brook, as large as the one in the mea- dow at home, running most of the time. We could see Longs Peak quite plainly though it was 125 miles away. It is covered with snow.
 On the hottest days there is coo breeze from the mountains. It makes me think of and seems like the breeze that blows across the Twin Lakes. Have cool nights and it Is always cool in the shade, which cannot be said of Nebraska I did not like it in Nebraska over-well but can say I like this country first rate so far. Every time I see the noun tains I feel like jumping up and starting for them on foot. I want to go to then before I go back, very likely shall no have better chance.
 Now 8 word about the B. < NJ. line in this country one starts from McCool I think, or somewhere near there, ani goes to Sterling and Cheyenne. Oul division IS west of Sterling about ?; miles. do not know when we will gt there. At present we are camped jus outside of town. In that part of the country there is nothing but antelope. and rattlesnakes. I saw the first full hedged COW boy that I have ever seer this afternoon. He did not look SC very savage was with about 60 Oregon horses, not very sleek looking ; most O them had colts. They say there ar, 98O, 900 head of cattle on the ranche. west of here and they are going to hay, . grand "round up" soon i; hope ma, see some of it.
 I went down to the Platte river thu morning and took bath it is 5s mile across. could not find place oveI knee deep.
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